Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20
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| Fort Gratiot is the first Michigan
town to use natural gas successfully
for fuel.
| Sandusky, Ohio, proposes to abolish
her lamps and light the city by cleo
tricity.
John Dunmire of Trade City, Penn,
the other day brought down an eagle
which measured six feet six inches
from tip to tip.
A Maine Judge has decided that it is
perfectly legal for the members of
church choir to whisper to each other
during service.
A lady found $50 gold piece in the
streets of Woodland, Cal, one day re-
Gently, invested it in lot, and in two
weeks realized ST.
In one week in New York thirty
two dry-goods clerks lost their situa
| tions because it was ascertained that
they frequented poof-rooms.
A discovery of q bed of Swedish iron
ore near Chattanooga has caused much
| excitement. The iron manufacturers
are looking into the matter.
At JerseyFille, ILL.,, George Good
rich, aged II years, committed suicide
because his sweetheart would not al
low him to spend the evening with
her.
A Medford, n. j., mother got wind
of the intended elopement of her
daughter the other night and circum-
vented her by locking up all her wear
ing apparel.
There is highway crossing over
the New York Central road where $50
people have been killed in the last
fourteen years because the company
was too stingy to employ a Waterman.
The banks in Oregon have plenty of
money to advance on wheat; but the
farmers are borrowing much less than
usual, which is an indication that they
are in better condition than for sew
eral years.
d. M. Hunter of Mount Morris,
Mich, owns a colt which has no eyes,
having been born in that unfortunate
condition. 1t is now over year old
and rather more intelligent than the
ordinary equine.
A piece Of rock was thrown 1900
feet by blast in shaft No. 9, Calumet
50 Hecla mine, in Michigan, and i'll
coming down crashed through q
house, landing at the feet of an old
lady who sat knitting.
The old compass which was used in
surveying Iroquois county as far back
as 1882 is on exhibition in the show
window of Alters drug store at Wat
| 1c hn Of Oh,
ertson of Watseka, III.
A Buffalo canary has a miniature
we'll in his cage, with bucket, the
chain of which reaches to its perch
When it wants drink it draws up the
bucket, much to the delight of the
children in the neighborhood.
An old sword has been dug up in
| the Rome railroad yard. 1t has been
in the ground SO long that rust had
eaten clear through some portions of
| the blade. 1t is thought to have be-
longed to the early Spanish settlers.
A woman of rs years, who had long
been known there as q professional
beggar. died in Boston the other day,
and among the rags and broken furni-
ture of her howell were found bonds
and money to the amount of $1,000.
At st. Augustine, Fla, few days
since A. M. Lopez, while at work tear
inc down Missions building on ST.
George street, found an old-fashioned
pistol Embedded in the walls. 1t is of
queer design and undoubtedly of great
age.
Mr.. IL. C. Duval, of the New York
Central, is cited by the New York San
as concluding from nine successive
annual trips that it costs less to spend
three months in Europe than at any of
our fashionable mountain or seaside
hotels.
A carat of gold received its name
from the carat-seed or the seed Of the
Abysslnian cora flower. This was a,
one period made useful when gems Of
gold were to be weighed, and so came
about the peculiar and now genera
use of the word.
Alfalfa is grown in California and
Texas as cattle feed, and three OF -four
crops are harvested per year. It ha:
always been supposed that alfalfa
would not thrive outside of California
and Texas, but it has been successful
| ~ grow Ill 1IuuOlS dG least.
A citizen of San Bernardino, Cal.
has been discovered who has been
married twenty years and is the father
of eleven children, but has never kissed
his wife nor any of his children. He
believes kissing is wicked because
Christ was betrayed with kiss.
A coyote in Walla Walla was at
tackled by an immense hawk that hi
him fair on the back of the head. The
coyote would duck his head, then make
IL snap at the hawk but could not reach
It, and at the end of twenty minutes
the coyote was trailing in the dust.
Experiments show tnata large ocean
steamer, going at nineteen knots an
hour, will move about two miles after
its engines are stopped and reversed,
and no authority gives less than a
mile or mile and half as the re-
| qulsite space to stop It's progress.
Every vehicle in Scotland especially
in the Highlands, is provided with a
brake. No pony chaise or village cart
IS without one, and to 90 down the
| lost DO Il.